After the car stopped, Hela felt someone lift her out of the car again.
After being lifted down, the instructor put some kind of thing on her wrist, and then she was carried away again.
The road was bumpy, and there were birds chirping and footsteps echoing across the grass.
Based on the scent of grass that Hela smelled, Hela deduced that she must have been carried to a desolate wilderness.
After stopping, the instructor placed Hela on the lawn.
"Thank you for your help, for keeping you still for so long." Hela recognized the voice as that of the female instructor who had carried her away.
"Training is about to begin. Lie here for another ten minutes, and then you can move around." The female instructor then put something in Hela's pocket and left.
Hela remained completely still throughout.
After lying there for ten minutes, Hela slowly raised her hand and removed the mask from her eyes.
What comes into view is a clear blue sky and white clouds.
Hela got up, looked around, and realized that she was indeed in a jungle.
Green grass, tall trees, bushes, and sunlight shining from the horizon—everything was there.
Hela then reached into her pocket, wanting to see what the instructor had given her.
Then he took out a few pieces of fruit candy.
Hela blinked, then put the four candies back into her pocket.
He stood up from the grass and patted the grass off his body.
Hela began to feel confused. The instructor only told her that this was special training, but didn't explain its purpose. As a result, Hela didn't know what to do next.
Hela lowered her head and recalled the experience Xing Lan had told Gu.
They drugged the trainees, abandoned them in the wilderness, and subjected them to special training...
But after thinking for a long time, Hela still couldn't remember. There was nothing Xing Lan could do. She had only told Hela what to do when she first entered the training camp. As for the training plan, Xing Lan pretended to be mysterious and said, "You have to figure that out yourself."
Hela lifted her head and stopped thinking about it. At least she was certain of one thing: there were other recruits participating in the training, but they were simply scattered around.
This was thanks in no small part to the fact that Hela didn't need to sleep or be drugged.
Otherwise, if you suddenly woke up and found yourself in the middle of nowhere, you'd be incredibly confused.
Hela looked again at the bracelet that was being worn on her wrist.
It's called a bracelet, but it's really just a rope made of special material tied to the wrist. As for its purpose, it's most likely for location tracking or to check on the safety of new recruits.
After all, Xing Lan had said that no matter what kind of training it was, the instructors would always put the safety of the new recruits first.
Hela lowered her hand and began searching for the other recruits.
Hela walked on the lush green lawn, occasionally reaching out to push aside branches that blocked her path.
Strangely enough, even though it's Mingming, the vegetation here is as lush as in spring.
However, Hela didn't pay much attention to the details. It was just that this aimless search for people made Hela feel as if she had returned to the time when she had not yet become human.
She remembered that after she turned into a dog and tasted human food, she began searching for humans everywhere.
Just like now, we're searching aimlessly, even the locations are pretty much the same.
The difference is that last time it was to hunt humans, while this time it's to help humans.
However, the smell in this forest felt strange; a peculiar odor permeated the air, one that an ordinary person would definitely not be able to detect.
But Hela's dog-like nose could easily detect it, and the scent masked other smells in the air, making it even more difficult to find Hela.
Suddenly, Hela smelled a human scent in the air, and the scent was very familiar.
Hela stopped, checked the direction of the smell again, and then ran towards it.
Hela's figure darted swiftly through the jungle, as if the rugged and complex path didn't exist at all.
As Hela drew closer, the scent grew stronger and clearer, and Hela finally recognized who it belonged to.
Slowly, the faint sound of a girl crying could be heard coming from ahead of Hela.
"Waaaaah~!"
"Where am I...?! How did I end up here after just one nap...? Sister Hela! Ye Yiqing... where are you...?"
I'm so scared being alone..."
Keke slumped onto the lawn, tears streaming down her cheeks and onto her uniform, soaking a large patch of it.
Suddenly, the sound of running footsteps came from behind. Keke stopped crying and looked up in the direction of the sound, puzzled.
The sound of running grew closer and closer, and the sound of footsteps trampling on the grass was incredibly clear.
Keke listened to the approaching footsteps with red eyes, her heart leaping into her throat.
She tried to stand up and run away, but her legs were numb from kneeling for so long that she couldn't move them at all.
The bushes were parted, and Hela walked over with her expression still blank.
"Ah--!
"Don't eat me! Don't eat me! I'm only 17! I've never been in a relationship before, and I don't want to die!" Keke closed her eyes tightly in terror, waving her little hands frantically in the air.
"No dating in the training camp," Hela's voice drifted over.
Keke's body stiffened visibly, then she immediately opened her eyes and looked at Hela.
"H- Hela, I... I'm not dreaming, am I?"
Keke rubbed her tear-filled eyes and looked at Hela again.
Seeing that the other person was still standing there, and realizing that he wasn't seeing things, he realized that the other person wasn't seeing things.
Keke excitedly pushed herself up with both hands and threw herself into Hela's arms, bursting into tears again.
"Waaaaah! Sister Hela, I thought I was going to die and be left to rot in the wilderness. You scared me half to death!"
Keke wiped her tears on Hela's clothes and continued to sob, "Where am I? Why did I wake up in this godforsaken place...?"
"The instructors carried us here; they said we needed special training," Hela replied calmly, a stark contrast to Coco's terrified Keke.
"Special training?" Keke looked at Hela with tears in her eyes.
"Yes, the instructor told me himself." Hela nodded honestly.
Keke breathed a huge sigh of relief, as if all her strength had been drained away, and slid off Hela, lying on the lawn.
"That scared me to death! It was just training. I thought I'd been kidnapped by human traffickers and forced into marriage in the mountains." Keke breathed a sigh of relief.
"Since it's training, what's next? And what will the training consist of?"
"Have no idea."
"Oh, it's okay. I feel relieved to have Hela with me." Keke said, trying to stand up and hug Hela, but she fell back down again after only standing halfway up.
Ugh... my legs are so numb...
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